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Full Name:

Steve Carol

Display Name:

Agentblue

Job Title:

Lead developer at The Link Auditors

Company:

The Link Auditors

Type of Work:

In-house

Location:

London, United Kingdom

Favorite Thing About SEO:

Google

Bio:

I am the lead developer at The Link Auditors, I have been developing on the web for over 10 years, I have a long history in design and innovation and have been developing for the SEARCH market for over 5 years.

This is an interesting argument against Google that they should be more careful with attacking companies but in this reality we all have to understand every side of the argument. Google's side is they have to deal with spam, its fundamental to their business model and a serious challenge. They have to act in this way and their hands are tied.

The REALLY IMPORTANT argument is that companies should wake up and protect their assets and use tools to monitor their own back links for signs of spam or negative SEO. Full Disclosure : I work at THE LINK AUDITORS and we have a tool that costs £29 pound that does EXACTLY this job, while the article poster (YON)

seemingly has spent thousands of man hours delving into and cleaning the links as mentioned above, the truth is with our tools this could have been managed with one click and 10 minutes of work for about £30 a month.

I built and run www.linkaudit.co.uk thanks for the mention, the link removal CMS is free and is very effective to use when removing your links, though the hard part which people often struggle with is knowing which links to remove, for this we offer a complete link audit which is a forensic analysis of every link to a site, looking for non indexed, low trust, sitewide links, duplicate IP, over optimization of anchors in relation to how much juice each link has, and many more signals. A full audit link sample can be seen here: http://www.linkaudit.co.uk/info/fullexamplereport.zip this will give you a better understanding of the issues we locate and problems we find.July 25, 2012